So you want to watch the Super Bowl but you’re not really an American football fan? Let Eurosport’s supervising editor Seán Fay pick out some of the more quirky back stories to help make the event that bit more interesting.

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I love American football. During the NFL season you can find me on my couch every Sunday watching hours and hours of the stuff without getting bored. It is a great sport – I recommend getting into it.

However, when it comes to the Super Bowl-watching British public, I accept I’m probably in the minority. This is the one match that people who don’t regularly watch the

While Baltimore Ravens head coach John Harbaugh and his brother Jim, the head coach of the San Francisco 49ers, will be the first brothers to oppose each other in the Super Bowl, plenty of other families have fought it out in the sports world.

Here's our pick of the best:

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Venus and Serena Williams (Tennis)

Serena Williams and sister Venus williams at the 2009 Wimbledon singles finalBoth are great players in their own right, with Serena winning 15 grand slam singles titles and Venus, the older of the two, collecting seven.

The pair squared off in eight grand slam finals, including four in a row, with Serena winning six and Venus two. In 2002 and 2003, the sisters

To compile a rundown of the top 10 Mario Balotelli moments during his stay in England is not difficult. There are many, many examples of hilarious buffoonery and near-tragic stupidity to recount, but to pick just 10? It is actually very difficult indeed.

The reaction to the volatile Italian's departure from Manchester City to AC Milan has inevitably split opinion - even on these pages, Early Doors has bemoaned the exit of "the gift that keeps on giving", while Jim White believes the sigh of relief from Manchester City will have been palpable.

Mario Balotelli's training ground bust-up (why is it always a "training ground bust-up", by the way? why not "scrap", "fracas" or even plain old "fight"?) with Manchester City manager Roberto Mancini has been the talk of football for the last two days.

But Mancini has played the incident down and is refusing to sanction his player, claiming that it's merely "something that can happen" in football training.

Fact is, he's dead right. While you or I would face instant dismissal for scrapping with colleagues at work, footballers can knock seven bells out of each other without anybody seeming to

Newcastle manager Alan Pardew called off the Toon's event 'out of respect for the fans' while the players at struggling QPR took the decision to cancel their shindig due to their poor form in the Premier League.

However, history shows that finding ANY excuse to dump the annual booze-up is probably a good idea.

It's that time of year once again: yes, the season when well-meaning but hideously misguided relatives decide that there's nothing you, as a football fan, would rather have than some utter junk with your team's logo on it.

So as a public service to all football fans out there, and with a doff of the cap to our colleagues over at Dirty Tackle, please find below our selection of the absolute worst of the Christmas crap - available to buy from a good club shop near you!

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Borussia Dortmund barbecue and grill cleaner

Football clubs will sell anything they can slap their logo on, but few

After three blistering contests between Manny Pacquiao and Juan Manuel Marquez went the distance, their long-running rivalry ended (or did it?) in explosive fashion in the final second of round six in their fourth meeting on Saturday.

The right-hand finish from Marquez was a brutal shot which left 'Pac-Man' in a motionless heap for several minutes as referee Kenny Bayless waved the fight off. The Filipino even went to a local hospital later that night for a precautionary CAT scan.

But was it the sport's best-ever KO? Our American expert Kevin Iole disagrees. See for yourself what he regards as

It's a rare feat indeed: the Colombian himself said that the last time he'd managed five in a match was back when he was a kid in Bogota.

But should he move to Chelsea - as widely forecast ever since he spearheaded his team to a win over the Blues in the European Super Cup in August - he would not be the first five-star performer to line up in the English top flight.